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The Yakima BaseLine Roof Rack gives you a sturdy foundation for carrying gear on your roof. It comes as a complete system with two JetStream crossbars, four BaseLine towers, and a custom fit kit. The aluminum construction keeps it strong but lightweight, and the aerodynamic shape helps it stay stable under load. With a 165-lb weight capacity and durable black finish, it’s built for hauling everything from kayaks to camping gear with confidence.
Driving with a roof rack can sometimes bring unwanted whistling or vibration. These aero-style crossbars help reduce that by shaping airflow over the top of your vehicle. The push-down rubber strips in the top channels seal against the mounts, minimizing wind noise and vibration so highway drives are quieter and more comfortable.
Some racks require trimming channel strips before you can mount your gear, but not this one. The JetStream’s rubber strips push down when you install hardware—no cutting or adjusting needed. Just press your carrier into the track and it fits right in place. The strips close back around the mount to help keep the channels sealed against weather while keeping setup simple.
Whether you’re loading cargo boxes, bike racks, or kayak cradles, these bars are ready for it. The aero-style design works with most accessories that mount in the top channels or clamp around the bars. That means you can use your existing gear or mix in new attachments without changing your setup every time you switch activities.
If you want to secure your rack when parked, you can add Yakima Same Key System (SKS) lock cores (sold separately). They deter theft of the rack and keep your setup protected when you’re away from your vehicle. It’s an easy upgrade for peace of mind on long road trips or overnight stays.
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Hi, everyone, Aidan here with etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Yakima BaseClip Fit Kit for your Yakima BaseLine FX Roof Rack Kits. Now, this is gonna be the rubber pad and the clamps that actually hold the whole roof rack system in place and make it a custom fit for your various different vehicles. Now, that being said, there's tons of different kits out there on our website for different vehicles, all of those pads are gonna be molded somewhat differently to adapt to different roof shapes, so do plug in your vehicle information into our fit guide and find the right fit kit for you and your vehicle, but it's gonna be a look at the overall system, how it works, and how it functions with the roof rack. So the main two parts of this are gonna be the rubber pad and the clamp, but let's talk about that rubber pad first. It's gonna be custom molded to your vehicle, so you can see really well right here on this lip, it forms around that ridge on the roof and fits snugly into place there to make sure that nothing is moving around and it's fit custom to that area.
Now, the base of that fit kit is what actually clips into the tower here and serves as the connection point between the crossbar roof rack system and your vehicle. That rubber base to it is going to give you the maximum protection and make sure that you're not scratching or scuffing any paint on your roof, and it keeps things nice and sealed up. Now, the stainless steel clip is what also helps to secure it to our roof, that's gonna be the second main component. It's a stainless steel construction and a black powder coat finish, the finish helps it match the whole roof rack system, but it all helps it resists rust and corrosion. Now, the inside of those clips are gonna have a rubber padding, again, so there's no metal on metal contact with our paint or anything, and then you can see here, it's custom fit, hooking inside our door jam, and whenever I close the door, it'll just fit right around there, making sure that it's a nice custom fit.
It attaches up inside the tower right up through here, and it just tightens down, hooking into a slotted opening hole, and then that's what gets it all secured and what helps it join into the tower system. These fit kits come in pairs, one for the passenger's side and one for the driver's side. Now, the reason they do that is because depending on your vehicle, you're probably gonna have a different fit kit for the front and rear. Yakima does a lot of research and development into making sure it's a custom fit for the vehicle, and the one we have it on here today, the Honda Civic, is a perfect example. You can even visually see how much longer the clamp at the back is compared to this clamp up at the front.
So clearly, we're gonna need a different kit for the front end, because there's just less distance for that clamp to travel. So again, plug in your vehicle information to our fit guide, make sure you find the right kits for you, and make sure that you also have the right set for the front and rear. But that's really all there is to it. The BaseClip system is gonna work really well in tandem with that BaseLine roof rack system, and it's really just coming down to making sure you get the right fit for your vehicle, because without that fit kit, you don't have a roof rack. But that'll do it for our look at these BaseClip Fit Kits for your Yakima BaseLine Roof Rack Systems.
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